A pet owner captured the moment her rescue dog FaceTimed her birth mom with the news that they were both finally safe and would soon be reunited.

Mitchy McGhan shared the powerful footage of her rescue dog, Momo, who was adopted from Samson's Sanctuary Rescue in Los Angeles, California, looking into the screen at Midori, the mom she left behind in South Korea in heartbreaking circumstances.

There's no doubt that Momo understands she is looking at a video of a dog and Midori likely realizes the same. A study published in the December 2013 edition of the journal Animal Cognition found dogs are capable of identifying images of other dogs among pictures of animals and humans, using their visual sense alone.

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Whether Momo remembers her mom is unclear, but for Midori, the pain of that day when she was first separated from her puppies must surely live on somewhere in her mind. McGhan first met Midori during a family trip to Korea with her mom, having realized they were not too far from the shelter Momo had been transferred over to the U.S. from.

"Midori was part of a rescue mission of over 75 dogs," McGhan told Newsweek. "She and the other dogs were born into a situation where the owner didn't spay or neuter any of them. For most of Midori's life up until that point she had lived on a chain and when she was eventually rescued she was pregnant."

Midori and the other canines were rescued by a local shelter after their owner became terminally ill. On the day staff went to pick them up though, McGhan said they found Midori "quite literally keeping her head above water to stay alive."

"It had been raining and the house was completely flooded," she said. "Midori was in a pool of rain water and was nearly drowning whilst pregnant and on a chain still. All the other dogs were also on chains. She was saved. If they hadn't come that day, she probably would have died."

Midori was taken to a shelter that housed over 250 dogs. It was there that she gave birth to Momo and her siblings. It was also there that she witnessed each and every one of her babies getting adopted while she remained behind.

"She was heartbroken and completely shut down," McGhan recalled. "She didn't eat for 3 days after and would ram her head into a wire fence, trying to find her babies." Deemed a "no-fly dog" unsuitable for adoption abroad, McGhan said that staff feared that Midori would likely have to live the rest of her life in the confines of the shelter.

McGhan's visit changed all of that though. Having met and seen how anxious Midori was, she and her mom decided they "had to do something." "We couldn't leave her there. She was hiding in the corner and was so weary of touch," she said. "We decided to foster Mama Midori for the remainder of our trip to give her a fighting chance to take her freedom flight to the States to be reunited with her pups."

They enlisted the help of Samson's Sanctuary again. Samson's Sanctuary is a foster based rescue specializing in saving animals from both the U.S. and South Korea. With their help, they got Midori spayed while she is now heartworm free meaning she qualifies for a freedom flight to the U.S. "She will fly with me on July 28," McGhan said. "The first pup she will see is her daughter Momo."

The plan from there is to foster Midori until she finds a forever home to call her own. "She deserves the world," McGhan said. In the meantime, McGhan is also working on getting Momo's dad and Midori's mate, Moonshine, rescued from the same South Korean dog shelter.

"Samson's is actively working on finding him a foster or furever family to be able to get him on our flight in order for the family to be fully reunited," she said. The next time Momo sees Midori it won't be via FaceTime. It will be for real and for keeps.

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